December 24, 1951

December 24, 1951

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Action Due on Af Forge Press Program

By Alexander McSurely7 min

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Super Cargo

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Gas Turbine Powers Navy Copter

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Action Due on Af Forge Press Program

Airframe manufacturers have finally decided what size presses best meet needs of their new designs. Now it’s up to Air Force to get the machines built, and Wright Field meeting expects to find the answer.

By Alexander McSurely7 min

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Super Cargo

Seaboard & Western buys first five L-1049B Connies. And expects nearly to double its lift capacity.
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Gas Turbine Powers Navy Copter

Kaman Aircraft Corp. has completed two successful test flights of its gasturbine shaft-powered K-225 helicopter. Original flight which took place Dec. 10, represented the first time a helicopter with such a power system had been flown in the U. S.
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Hunsaker Sees Need for Secrecy

Wright Trophy winner suggests that we advertise our air power in-being, keep under wraps our research.
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New Mig Threat

External wing tanks give planes range equal to F-86. But high winds and Red fuel problem aid U. N.

By A. W. Jessup2 min

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P-w to Build Atomic Aircraft Engine

Pratt & Whitney Engine division, United Aircraft Corp., has been awarded an Air Force contract for “work on the development of an atomic aircraft engine." A release issued jointly by the Atomic Energy Commission and the Air Force said only that the Pratt & Whitney contract was in addition to other contracts in the same field.
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Airline M-day Plan Is Given Approval

Defense Secretary Robert A. Lovett has approved the airline mobilization plan that marks “several hundred” of the four-engine airliners for 48-hour call to Air Force service. Next month the airline presidents will meet with Defense and Civil Aeronautics officials to work out final details, such as aircraft modification contracts, war risk insurance and accelerated amortization.
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C-97 Takes on Still Another Job

To its many other capabilities—troop transport, hospital plane, freight, refueler—Boeing’s Big C-97 Stratofreighter has added a new role: forward area supply transport. In tests at Ft. Bragg, N. C. and Westover AFB, Mass., the C-97 demonstrated its ability to drop supplies by parachute to troops in the field.
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Johnson Postpones Hearings at Amc

Senate Preparedness Committee, headed by Sen. Lyndon Johnson, has postponed hearings on “favoritism, kick-backs, and possible fraud” in the letting of contracts at Wright-Patterson AFB until after the first of the year. A spokesman for the committee said that Johnson feels the hearings are of such importance that a majority of members should be present.
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Need Cargo Planes

Melbourne—Australian armed forces are pressing the government to place orders immediately for a number of modern air transports, which are conspicuously absent from lists of equipment recently ordered abroad. Australian experts favor the Fairchild C-119, and the Chase C-123.
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